by Megan Degeneffe, SF2011 Brooke Budner and Caitlyn Galloway are the sort of people who are important to making government work. Brooke and Caitlyn run Little City Gardens, a for-profit experiment to find out if growing food in the city can be profitable. The problem came when Little City Gardens attempted to expand and discoveredRead… Read more »
Editor’s note: This is the first in a two-part series from SF2011 Fellow Marielle Earwood on lessons she has learned working on San Francisco’s Urban Watershed Framework, inside the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission. by SF2011 Fellow Marielle Earwood Coming in as a Fellow, with minimal exposure to large office or agency-wide politics, I hadRead… Read more »
by Ross Nugent, BR2011 People are often viewed as the most important resource that any organization has. This is true, especially as you climb the levels of an organization. It’s becoming more commonplace for businesses to provide workforce development opportunities. It makes sense: employees remain with the company for long enough to qualify for furtherRead… Read more »
by Danielle Fitts (SF2011) One morning in late May, I stepped off the bus in the Civic Center neighborhood in San Francisco and noticed that rainbow flags were flying from every street lamp. For those of you who are not familiar, the rainbow flag is a symbol of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) prideRead… Read more »
by Luke Fuller (SF2011) I visited Sacramento four months ago with my Fellowship cohort to meet with policy makers and political specialists, and to ask some uncomfortable questions about the state of the State. A $26B budget deficit, political gridlock, a frumpy economy, a mess of jurisdictional mishaps and dozens of uncoordinated populist initiatives seeminglyRead… Read more »
This post is part 3 of a 3-part series by recently-graduated SF2011 Fellow Marielle Earwood, reflecting on her Fellowship year. With the end of my Fellowship year, it’s really hard to believe that so much time has gone by, and that my position as a City Hall Fellow has moved onto the next phase: workingRead… Read more »
Editor’s note: This is the second in a two-part series by SF2011 Fellow Marielle Earwood on lessons she has learned working on San Francisco’s Urban Watershed Framework, inside the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission. by SF2011 Fellow Marielle Earwood My role as the Urban Watershed Framework (UWF) Coordinator has been to keep track of theRead… Read more »
by Whitney Ramos, SF2011 When I came across an article about the first University of San Francisco McCarthy Center Bay Area Survey, I immediately found the full report on the USF website. The trigger for my interest was a discussion of how much trust Bay Area residents have for the people who run their cities.Read… Read more »
This post is part 2 of a 3-part series by recently-graduated SF2011 Fellow Marielle Earwood, reflecting on her Fellowship year. For my Fellowship year (2010-2011), the Civic Leadership Development Program (CLDP) encompassed City Hall Fellows’ learning objectives, educational talks, hand-on tours, and reflection debriefs. Through the CLDP, my cohort got exposure to multiple layers ofRead… Read more »
by Whitney Ramos, SF2011 There is an email in my inbox with the subject “CPUC GHG OIR PHC.” Within the context of my office at the SFPUC (that’s the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission) I know that the email is about the California Public Utilities Commission’s Greenhouse Gas Order to Institute a Rulemaking, Pre-hearing Conference.Read… Read more »